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Endemic disease   /ɛndˈɛmɪk dɪzˈiz/   Listen
Endemic disease

noun
1.
A disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location.  Synonym: endemic.






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"Endemic disease" Quotes from Famous Books



... foresee what difficulties may arise. As they are all more or less engaged in productive industry, at the least shock given to business all private fortunes are put in jeopardy at the same time, and the State is shaken. I believe that the return of these commercial panics is an endemic disease of the democratic nations of our age. It may be rendered less dangerous, but it cannot be cured; because it does not originate in accidental circumstances, but in the temperament ...
— Democracy In America, Volume 2 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville

... with an infinity of malpractices unknown to our ruder but better fathers; and we suffer from the bane of modern civilisation, that idiot charity towards the refuse of mankind, coupled to a perfect indifference for the honest people they assail or bring to ruin. To that endemic disease of the mind no penal statute can afford a remedy. MacMahon was as weak as a school-girl on such occasions; Grevy is scarce better; at least he does not call ...
— Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. - In Two Volumes. VOL. II. • John Knox Laughton



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